Amoz (), also known as Amotz,
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, mentioned in

1:1; 2:1 and 13:1, and in

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19:2, 20; 20:1. The word "amoz" means strong

Rabbinical tradition

There is a

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ic tradition that when the name of a prophet's father is given, the father was also a prophet, so that Amoz would have been a prophet like his son. Though it is mentioned frequently as the

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ic title of Isaiah, the name Amoz appears nowhere else in the

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. The rabbis of the Talmud declared, based upon a rabbinic tradition, that Amoz was the brother of Amaziah (), the king of Judah at that time (and, as a result, that Isaiah himself was a member of the royal family). According to some traditions, Amoz is the "

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" in

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25:7–9 (

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20), who cautioned Amaziah to release the

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that he had hired.

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